May 2010

May 24, 2010

My client, 7-11 will soon offer FarmVille-branded products that will unlock virtual, 7-11-branded items in the popular Facebook game. Two other games from game-maker Zynga will also get tie-ins with the stores: Mafia Wars and YoVille.

May 17, 2010

Darryl Carpenter, of the Florida contracting firm C.W. Roberts, recently had an interesting thought while driving to a job site: could hay be used to soak up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico? This wasn’t a random thought: C.W. Roberts has a contract to protect Walton County’s beaches from the spill. Judging by this video, Carpenter’s idea may have some merit. C.W. Roberts’s president, Charles Roberts, wants the government to allow a 10-acre demonstration in the Gulf. ”We want to be given a chance to show that this simple strategy just might solve the problem,” he says. “It’s so simple that I think it scares people.” (HT: Ken Braithwaite)

May 16, 2010

Jeffrey Vanhoutte was a famous commercial photographer born in Antwerp, Belgium. He was greatly influenced by his family when he was young. At that time, he was able to borrow his father’s camera during his school trips. Once his father made an enlargement of one of his photos and hung it up on the wall, his dream of becoming a photographer came up then. He got his degree in professional photography from the Coloma School in Mechelen, Belgium. And at the age of 21, he opened his own studio in Brussels, worked mostly for food photography for clients as Carrefour, Unilever, etc. In 1999, he started working with digital equipment and collaborating with advertising agencies BBDO, Ogilvy, TWBA, Saachi…

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Jeffrey Vanhoutte was a famous commercial photographer born in Antwerp, Belgium. He was greatly influenced by his family when he was young. At that time, he was able to borrow his father’s camera during his school trips. Once his father made an enlargement of one of his photos and hung it up on the wall, his dream of becoming a photographer came up then. He got his degree in professional photography from the Coloma School in Mechelen, Belgium. And at the age of 21, he opened his own studio in Brussels, worked mostly for food photography for clients as Carrefour, Unilever, etc. In 1999, he started working with digital equipment and collaborating with advertising agencies BBDO, Ogilvy, TWBA, Saachi…

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